Improvement in seeding-machines



anni eine gaat naar JACKSON OOZA'D, OF OORYDON, IOWA.

Letters Patent No. 110,634, dated January 3, i871.

IMPROVEMENT IN .SEEDING-MACHINES.

, The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all' whom 'it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JACKSON Conan, of Corydon, in the county of Wayne and State of Iowa, have invented a neu7 and improved Seeding-Machine; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents a vertical longitudinal section of my improved seeding-machine.

. Figure 2 is .a vertical transverse -section of the same, x x, tig. 1, being thesection line.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. l

This invention relates to a new' machine for scattering seed broadcast, and consists in the application and ar'` rangement of a rotary basin, which serves, by centrifugal force, to throw the seed in all directions.

The apparatus is applicable to all'wheeled vehicles,

and readily detachable when not lrequired for use.

A .in the drawing represents a wagon or other wheeled vehiclel or frame of suitable construction.

Upon th'e same is placed, and secured by screw or othermeans, but so as to be readily detachable, a box or case, B.

C is a horizontal shafthung in the box B and connected by a belt, a, or gearing with one of the wheels b of the vehicle A, to be revolved vby the same whe the vehicle is in motion.

y D is a vertical spindle arranged in the box B, and connected, by gear-wheels c c, with the shaft O, Ato be rapidly revolved by the same. This spindle D carries a cylindrical vessel,'E, which has projecting tubular arms gl d at its lower part.

. The upper end ofthe vessel E is open to a'vhopper,

vF, while its lower end is closed.

The spindle carries within the vessel E a cone, e, by

which the seed is crowded toward the tubes d.'

f is a slide arranged between the hopper and vessel E, for regulating the size of opening and the consequent admission of seed to the xvessel.

The' operation is as follows lhe seedto be scattered is put into the hopper, and ows thence into the rotary vessel or basin E, which scatters it` through the open-ended projections al in all directions. By the slide the discharge of seed oanbe instantaneously regulated. Y,

vHaving thus described my invention,

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- An inwardly-converging self-feeding hopper, F, and apertured box B, combined, as describedwith a revolving vessel, E, having an' inner conical seed-crowd er, e, and radial tubular distributing-arms d, all arranged as described.

' JACKSON GOZAD.

Witnesses J. W. FREELAND, JOSHUA ItoBIsoN. 

